Fatelessness Chapter 3 Quotes + video

Here I have some important quotes of the third chapter of Fatelessness, these quotes are very interesting because the express different ideas on the book. Also this exercise will be very interesting because I will review the PEE Structure.

1-. The idea of concentration camps was something unknown for the Jewish population. They were eager to figure out what was going on. “The attempted mainly to figure out what consequences the episode might have for them; from what I could hear, thought, there were about as many different views as there were men”. This quote is said by the protagonist as he observes a group of grown up Jewish workers, that gathered together to discuss about the police actions of stopping them wail going to work. The meaning of this quote is that people didn’t know what to do when policemen stop their buses.

2-. The idea of Nazi superiority is expressed in the book, where Jewish population is segregated, in a way of racism. “He turned toward the gendarmes, ordering them, in a bellow that filled the entire square, to take the whole Jewish rabble off to the place”. This quote is said by the protagonist of the story, when he is entering the “labor camps” for first time. The meaning of this quote is that Jewish are an inferior group, that should be commanded by the Nazis.

3-. Georg was astonish when he first enter the labor camp, and he realize that it was worse than he thought they were. “ They led us on into a maze of gray buildings, before we suddenly debouche onto a huge open space strew with a white gravel”.  This clearly represents the protagonist feeling of fear, because of it’s unknown reality.